Detective-Inspector Lejeune and police surgeon Jim Corrigan enter the world of witchcraft and the occult when a puzzling list, naming people already dead or marked for death, is found on Father Gorman's dead body

To understand the strange events at The Pale Horse inn, Mark Easterbrook knew he had to begin at the beginning. But where exactly was the beginning? Was it the savage blow to the back of Father Gorman's head? Or the priest's visit, just minutes before, to a woman on her death bed? Or was there a deeper significance to the violent squabble which Mark Easterbrook had himself witnessed earlier?